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I think beets are sometimes used as chicken food. I remember reading somewhere that Laura Ingalls Wilder (of Little House on the Prarie) fed her hens beets and they laid through the coldest winters. Can't remember the variety of beet, but they are HUGE monsters.
Dad always fed beet pulp to started calves and milk cows; they loved the stuff! It improves palatability in cattle feed, but I forget the nutrient profile; I know it's full of vitamins and minerals, though.
I haven't figured out what chickens think tastes especially good, except slugs and peanuts. I'll find out how they feel about pears and apples if it ever stops raining so I can get pollenation; I have about thirty very old apple trees, and five old and one new pear (and a quince: I'm not sharing the quinces).
My girls like to pick at the fallen apples under my trees in the fall.
